I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it. --Robin

If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?

Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.

You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet.

As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its presence.